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By BookMuncher

I agree with Tounces... in first grade, NO ONE can find the page except your kids with good number sense. In 2nd, I found that most could. The ones that couldn't were typically the ones that hadn't developed that internal
sense of the way numbers go. In first grade, I naturally do a 30 second mini-lesson (which the kids take over later) on how to find the page. Before anyone is touching their books, I write the number on the board and I say something like: "343. That means you have to go all past the 10's, 20's, 30's, 40's and up up up until you pass one hundred. Then you ahve to go all through the one hundreds,

then all through the two hundreds. When you get to the three hundreds you can start looking at the second number until it gets to the fourties. If you get to the fifties, you've gone too far."

It sounds like a lot, but I consider it part of my math time. As I talk, I encourage them to visualize. Later, I let other kids describe in their own words how to find the page.